The village of Vyritsa in the Leningrad Region is also called the "dacha empire", and in the old days it was called the Prince's Valley. The settlement is inferior in popularity to the same Komarovo and Peredelkino, nevertheless, the nature and the magnificent Oredezh River, pine forest are much more beautiful here. Such a unique atmosphere made it possible for more than one extraordinary personality to develop: the science fiction writer Ivan Efremov, the leader of teetotalers Ivan Churikov, St. Vyritsky Seraphim and others. There is something to see in the village, there are old country houses of wealthy people and modern buildings, the cost of which is estimated in millions.
About the village
Vyritsa in the Leningrad Region has the status of an urban-type settlement assigned to the Gatchina District. It is located on the banks of the Oredezh River, 60 kilometers from the northern capital - St. Petersburg. The city of Gatchina is 32 kilometers away.
As of the beginning of last year, 12,430 people live in the village. In the summer, the number of the population more than doubles, due to vacationers.
There are several small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the village: a weaving factory, an experimental mechanical plant, a sawmill and a number of others.
A bit of history
There are several versions of the origin of the name. According to one of them, the word "vyr" in Russian means the abyss on the river. Other researchers argue that the word is taken from the Old Russian language, namely "Iriy-sad", which eventually transformed into "Vyriy-sad" and means paradise.
Until the 16th century, the lands of modern Vyritsa in the Leningrad Region belonged to the Novgorod Vodskaya Pyatina. Then the territories that have not yet been settled are transferred to the Gryaznevsky Nikolsky Pogost.
According to some reports, the founders of the settlement were fugitive Saratov serfs from St. Petersburg. They liked the local beauty and settled here. There is even a legend that an oak tree is still growing on the banks of the Oredezh River, which was planted in honor of the first settlers.
Until the end of the 19th century, there were no more than 1.5 hundred people in the village.
When a railway appears in the village, with a station, in 1906, plans are born to create a conceptual settlement - a "garden city". That is, it was planned to create all the conditions for comfortable living in the bosom of nature. In the same year, a school opens in the village, and after 2 years a temple. In the newspapers of St. Petersburg, advertisements are constantly flashing with an offer to purchase land plots on the fertile land of Vyritsa. One of the earliest and wealthiest settlers was the father of Ivan Efremov.
During the Second World War, the town of Vyritsa in the Leningrad Region was under occupation, and Germany's allies - the Spaniards and Romanians - were located here. The Germans themselves opened a concentration labor camp for children.
Already in 1944, the settlement began to be restored, hydroelectric power plants, factories and even 8 five-story residential buildings were erected.
Labor camp for children
The existence of the children's forced labor camp from September 1942 to the end of 1943, even few people from the local population suspected. The Germans organized it on the basis of one of the rest houses.
After the construction of the hydroelectric power station, the water rose high, began to wash away the banks, and the remains of small children began to appear, these were bones and skulls. The director of the school, who was working at that time, became interested in this fact and, together with the students, began to study history.
As a result of the research, it was found that after the liberation of the village by the 72nd division, a children's camp was discovered. There were still 50 living, but severely exhausted children from work and hunger in it. They were taken from nearby villages, they were mostly orphans and children from large families. The area was fenced in with barbed wire, and an escape was supposed to be shot.
We also managed to find out that during the existence of the camp, about 2 thousand children died. The remains were collected and buried near the cemetery in 1964.
The children of the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, decided to erect a monument; for its construction, the children worked at the state farm, at local enterprises, and collected scrap metal. As a result, a monument was erected in 1985.
Father Seraphim helped the children as best he could, even a paper was found, drawn up in the form of an act of transferring things to the children. Some former prisoners remembered this holy man.
Surviving architectural monuments
Pos. Vyritsa of the Leningrad Region is famous not only for tragic events; many interesting and old country buildings have survived on the territory of the settlement. For example, the houses that once belonged to Countess Thompson are located in Kommunalny Lane, these are numbers 13, 15, 17, 19. And the banker Bumagin owned 6 houses, and at his own expense he built a bridge, which is named so in his honor.
Districts of the village
Only by the end of 1913, the central part was formed in the village. The settlement is conventionally divided into 5 districts.
Princely Valley (modern hydroelectric power station area). There were about 15 houses here, and they all belonged to wealthy people or princely families. It was located in the area of \u200b\u200bmodern Lieutenant Schmidt Avenue (Petrovskaya Embankment) and Melnichny Avenue. In the center of the district there was a paved road surrounded by larch trees. Where the dam is now located, there was a wooden bridge, which had to be rebuilt annually in the spring, after the ice drift.
Here lived: Prince Wittgenstein, Count Moss and Countess Zhukova.
Red Valley. It is located in the area of \u200b\u200bKirovsky and Kommunalny avenue, Rechnoy street. It was on this street that the trainer Anisimov's dacha was located, which was later transferred to Chkalov.
Petrovka. The district is located in a place where members of the Christian teetotal community still live, and in fact, its founder was Churikov. Since 1906, over the course of 20 years, the area has grown rapidly, the settlers, who vowed never to drink again, grew vegetables here, kept cattle, that is, they conducted subsistence farming.
Central part. Once in the center there was a huge bazaar, and in the district there were small houses where merchants who came to the market lived. The central part was more of a shopping area.
In the area of \u200b\u200bthe experimental mechanical plant. This is the youngest part of the village, which is still being formed.
Palace-estate of the Vasiliev brothers
Despite the fact that the palace was erected in 2006, it has already been classified as an exclusive site and sights of Vyritsa in the Leningrad Region. This unique architectural object, located in one of the most picturesque places of the settlement, belongs to the oil tycoon Sergei Vasiliev. All the decoration of the house is made exclusively from natural materials, and behind the palace there is a magnificent landscape park.
The object is located along Rabochaya Street, but you will not be able to admire it up close, it is possible only from the other side of the river.
Temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
This temple in Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, is located at 49 Kirov Avenue. The building was laid on July 14, 1913 and was already consecrated on July 26, 1914. At first, the services were held only in the summer. In 1933, Seraphim became the spiritual father of the parish, after the Alexander Nevsky Lavra was closed. In 1938 the temple was closed and the society "OSOAVIAKHIM" was placed.
The doors of the church are opened after the arrival of the Germans in the village, in 1941. At the end of the war, the temple was never closed. However, since 1959, the Council for Churches has not appointed a priest in any way, so that there was an official reason to close the parish. However, the residents of the village are taking an active position, but they are seeking the appointment of a permanent priest only by 1966.
The building was erected in the style of hipped-roof wooden churches of the north of Russia, it has the shape of an eight on a four. Designed for 700 parishioners and has 3 aisles. On the territory there is a refectory, a small cemetery, a spring and a chapel.
The following shrines are kept here: the epitrachelion of Seraphim Vyritsky, the relics of Nikandr Gorodnoezersky, the Great Martyr Catherine and other saints.
Another holy place in the village along Pavassara Street is the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. It was consecrated in 1908. The church was built entirely at the expense of the parishioners.
It is a cross-shaped wooden structure designed for 800 parishioners. Like most churches in the country, in 1938 the church was closed and a club was placed in it, then the building was occupied by the military, and with the arrival of the Germans, a stable was located here.
In 1942, when the Germans were in the village, local residents received permission to restore the church and carried out all the work in a matter of days. Archimandrite Seraphim consecrated him. As soon as the German troops left the village, the church was closed again. Only in 1944 did the doors of the holy place open again.
The main shrine is the reliquary ark.
To this day, there is a unique institution on Pavlovsky Avenue in Vyritsa, Leningrad Region - a community of teetotal Christians.
The founder and ideological inspirer of the society - Churikov Ivan Alekseevich, read his sermons since 1894 in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. However, in 1897 he was expelled, citing the anti-Orthodox character of his sermons. He returned to the Samara province and continued his activities. In 1900, Churikov was accused of sectarianism and thrown into prison.
After leaving prison, Ivan was helped by merchants from Vyritsa, and near the village he created a colony of teetotalers. But in the community, not only are they engaged in propaganda, the members who have joined the society are engaged in agricultural subsistence farming. And in 1924, the commune was even awarded a distinctive badge for achievements in agriculture. After long persecution, the commune was registered again only in 1980. And after 11 years, there is a split of the direction into:
- followers of Churikov, who believed that he was a saint;
- "Radical" forces that do not believe in the divine origin of the founder and consider another offshoot to be a sect.
It is the last branch that operates in Vyritsa today. At two o'clock in the afternoon, every Sunday, a divine service takes place in the community house. It closely resembles a Protestant meeting. The Society publishes brochures and a newspaper on promoting healthy lifestyles.
In their reviews, people note another attraction of Vyritsa in the Leningrad Region - a museum dedicated to science fiction writer Ivan Efremov, who is a native of these places (1907). The museum is located at 35, Efimova Street, in the library building. It contains a science fiction marching chest, a compass, an expedition route (1949) and other things of the writer.
Children's rest
As soon as the children's holidays begin, parents immediately begin to think about what to do with their child in the free time, especially if the family lives in a large city, in the same St. Petersburg. This issue can be solved quite simply by sending the child to the Mayak camp of the Leningrad region in Vyritsa. It is located along Kommunalny Avenue, building 29.
Judging by the reviews, children from 7 to 17 years old are accepted here all year round. The convenient location allows you to send your child to rest without any problems. Experienced and professional teachers work here who will not let children get bored. In addition to entertainment, the child will breathe fresh air and communicate with peers.
Where to stay?
There are a sufficient number of hotels in Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, and at affordable prices. So, for example, you can stay in the mini-hotel "Lida" (Street of the Victims of the Revolution, 25). It offers visitors and vacationers all conditions, shower and toilet room, free parking and Wi-Fi. The cost of the room is from 2,000 rubles.
In their reviews, people often praise another inexpensive mini-hotel - Center Mayak (Kommunalny prospect, 29). Guests are provided with rooms with all conveniences, at a price of 1.3 thousand rubles.
If you want to get as close to nature as possible, you should settle in the houses "Vyritskiye Tarkhany", Vyritsa, Leningrad region. Photos of wooden houses are impressive, they have all the amenities, a kitchen and a balcony. The area is surrounded by greenery, there is a sauna and a barbecue area. The object is located in Lermontov Lane, 2. The cost of living is from 3.5 thousand rubles.
How to get there?
How to get by train to Vyritsa, Leningrad region? Suburban trains run regularly from St. Petersburg, from the Vitebsky railway station. The road will take about 1 hour and 10 minutes (63 kilometers). In the village itself there are 4 railway platforms: 1, 2, 3 platform and the station "Village". Moving from the Oredezhsky direction, then two - the Vyritsa station and the Mikhailovka platform.
There is a bus service between the city of Gatchina and the village, public transport runs here, following the route: K-534-A and 534.
The P40 Kempolovo-Shapki highway runs in the village.
Vyritsa is a village in the Gatchinsky district of the Leningrad region, 60 km south of St. Petersburg. An hour and 10 minutes by train from the Vitebsk railway station for Pushkin and Pavlovsk - and you will see the steep red banks of the Oredezh River, breathe in the aroma of fragrant pines and firs. Vyritsa is not only beautiful nature, but also an interesting history, the Kazan Church, where pilgrims from all over Russia flock to the grave of Elder Seraphim Vyritsky, the Church of Peter and Paul, the house of sober Christians Ioann Churikov, old houses and monuments.
The version officially approved in the Russian Empire and the USSR proposes to take the origin of the name from the Russian word "vyr", meaning the abyss, a whirlpool on the river. According to other assumptions of some researchers, the name of the area Vyritsa comes from the name of paradise in Old Church Slavonic - Iriy-sad (Vyri-sad). But, back in the 15th century, there was a village called Dvernitsa, whose name was transformed into Wiritza during the Swedish rule.
The lands of present-day Vyritsa in ancient times belonged to the Novgorodskaya Vodskaya pyatina; Russians, Izhora and Vod lived on them. In the 16th century, the lands of Vyritsa, then not yet inhabited, belonged to the Gryazevsky (Greznevsky Nikolsky) churchyard. At the beginning of the 20th century, at the Vyritsa railway station of the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk (Tsarskoselskaya) railway opened in 1906, it was planned to build a conceptual “ideal city” or “garden city”, where, with maximum urban comfort, a person could live in unity with nature. In the same 1906, a school was opened in Vyritsa. "Mademoiselle Syvina" worked as a teacher there. In 1908, according to the project of the architect N.I. Kotovich, with donations from the local population in the village at the station, a church was built in the name of the holy apostles Peter and Paul in memory of the miraculous salvation of the Royal Family during a train crash in Borki (1888). The church was built in the "new Moscow style" and could accommodate up to 1500 people.
Elder Seraphim Vyritsky lived in Vyritsa for many years. Here is his grave - a place of pilgrimage for the Orthodox. The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is widely known, built in 1914 by the architects M.V. Krasovsky and V.P. Apyshkov. Preserved individual dachas, the construction of which dates back to the early XX century, the Wittgenstein hunting castle on the banks of the Oredezh River. In Vyritsa, the science fiction writer, paleontologist and philosopher Ivan Efremov was born into the family of a Vyritsk timber merchant; in the village library, bearing his name, there is a museum of I.A.Efremov, and a memorial sign to the writer is installed near the library building. In Vyritsa was born a philosopher, an expert in the philosophy of science and technology, Anatoly Pavlovich Mozelov. In the village, the philosopher V.V.Rozanov, the actor RB Apollonsky, the academician D.S.Likhachev, the writer V.V.Bianki, had his own dacha, the theater and film actor K. Yu. Lavrov.
60 km from St. Petersburg, in the Gatchinsky district of the Leningrad region, there is a large urban-type settlement Vyritsa. Its total area is 165 sq. km, population 20,000. The first mention of Vyritsa dates back to 1500, and in the western part of the village there are mounds of 12 centuries.
However, Vyritsa began to settle down on the Oredezh River only in the 18th century. The right bank was occupied by military outposts. They guarded the southern approaches to St. Petersburg. And the left bank was chosen by the peasants from the Saratov province. They fled from the northern capital, St. Petersburg, which was under construction by Peter the Great. At that time, many serfs fled from construction, unable to withstand difficult working conditions.
In the 19th century 1864, Vyritsa was mentioned in the official documents of the Russian Empire. Then the village consisted of only 21 houses and 124 residents. In 1904, the construction of the railway was completed, which connected Pavlovsk with the Vyritsa station. In this regard, a massive construction of summer cottages began around the village, since the nature was beautiful, the Oredezh River was clean and rich in fish. In 1910, smaller villages merged into one large settlement, Vyritsa. At that time, the village had:
- telephone communication with St. Petersburg,
- regular communication,
- mail was working,
- 16 versts of the highway were laid,
- 8 versts of horse tram.
Vyritsa became a dacha village. In summer, about 13,000 summer residents from St. Petersburg lived here, and there were 1,500 tenants and country owners.
The revolution brought famine, devastation and poverty to the village. The civil war in Vyritsa was in full swing. In 1919, Yudenich's troops captured the settlement, but the Red Army soon recaptured it. Many times Vyritsa passed from the White Guards to the Red Army and vice versa.
After the revolution, Vyritsa gradually fell into decay, flourishing lasted only 10 years. However, in the 1930s-1940s, the famous elder Serafim Vyritsky settled there. All of Russia knew him. Pilgrims from all over the country flocked to the miraculous elder to hear good advice and parting words. After the war, many people came to learn about the fate of their dead and missing relatives. And the elder found time for everyone, consoled, calmed, helped to find relatives.
The Great Patriotic War did not bypass Vyritsa. In 1942 it was captured by German troops. There was a Romanian unit that guarded the POW camp. In 1942, in the fall, the Germans organized a children's camp. They brought here children who were left without parents. They were forced to work hard, the work day was 12 hours, and the feeding was disgusting.
The winter of 1944 was marked by the liberation of Vyritsa from the Nazis. Immediately after the liberation, active construction of destroyed houses began in the village. In the period 1944-1952, a hydroelectric power station was built. It lasted until 1971.
The industrial development of Vyritsa began in 1970. Metallurgical and experimental mechanical plants are opened. Pioneer camps and kindergartens are being built around the village. 8 new five-story buildings were combined into a residential neighborhood.
Then the Uzor weaving factory was opened, which still produces amazing tapestry fabrics. A sawmill has started operating, factories are producing goods that can be bought even in the northern capital.
In Vyritsa, such celebrities had dachas as:
- D.S. Likhachev,
- V. Bianchi,
- V. Pikul,
- K. Lavrov,
- O. Basilashvili.
Everyone was attracted by the amazing and unique nature, the fast river Oredezh, remoteness from megacities, clean air and measured life.
This village is the true capital of the dacha of St. Petersburg. In Vyritsa in 1930-1949 he spent the rest of his life, and we can say that the most significant period of it, the Orthodox Saint Seraphim Vyritsky. He was born near Rybinsk, grew up in an Orthodox family, at a young age he went to St. Petersburg, in 1892 he opened his own business, became rich and became a major mechanic. After he and his wife had two children, they began to live as brother and sister, and in 1920, after the revolution, Vasily distributed his property to monasteries, and the spouses became monks. Son Nikolai (1895-1941) - also an interesting person, he studied at the law faculty of St. Petersburg University, converted to Catholicism (!), Then served in the Red Army, was married four times and for some unknown reason was shot in 1941 by the NKVD. His daughter Margarita became the grandfather's first assistant. Seraphim was the confessor of Archbishop Alexy (Simansky), the future Patriarch Alexy I, and the young Alexei Ridiger, another future patriarch, was present at his funeral service. During the war and the occupation, the old man of Vyritsa predicted the death of the Romanian captain who commanded the units stationed in Vyritsa - the prophecy came true. Seraphim prayed, kneeling on the stone, despite his weakness. The stone can be seen in the garden of the house at Pilny Prospekt, 7 (if the hostess is in a good mood, she will take you there, although there are a lot of pilgrims and they, to put it mildly, bore you). To the house of Serafim Vyritsky from the station, you need to walk for a long time to the right along Kommunalny Prospekt, then turn left on Pilnoe - many streets in the dacha village are called avenues, while not being such in the usual sense of the word. The house will be on the right side. Parallel to Saw there is Kirov Avenue, and you have to go all of it in order to reach the chapel, erected over the grave of Seraphim (2000). Nearby is the Kazan Church, which looks like a tower (1914).
Attractions Vyritsa
Vyritsa is a large village. If you look in the direction of the train, then to the left of the station is a smaller part with a year-round population, and to the right is a huge suburban area, located practically in the middle of a pine forest on the picturesque banks of the Oredezh River. From Vyritsa station to the dachas there is a small railway line with several stations, one might say, within the village. Walk quite far to the end of the village on foot. Among the dachas you can find the abandoned Wittgenstein hunting palace of the 1880s, from which the vyritsa dacha economy began. In addition, on the other side of the Oredezh there is a palace built in 2005-2006 in the Rastrelli style, owned by the owner of the St. Petersburg oil terminal, a man with a criminal past and a controversial reputation, a local native Sergei Vasiliev.
In the "left", the main part of the city, there is another attraction of Vyritsa associated with religion. If you go from the station without crossing the path, as if returning to St. Petersburg, first along the paths along the street of the Victims of the Revolution, and then turn right onto Sobolevsky Street and walk up to the bridge over Oredezh, you will see a large carved blue tower, built in 1906 by the Christian community - the teetotalers of Brother John Churikov. In the conditions of Russia, such movements are relevant as nowhere else. Ivan Churikov himself was from the Samara province, settled in St. Petersburg at the end of the 19th century, where it soon became clear that with the word of the Gospel he could induce many drunkards to give up their addiction. Soon a cult was created - a kind of sect within Orthodoxy, where communion was given not with wine, but with sugar. The people healed from drunkenness soon declared Churikov the Second Christ, and Vyritsa was named the Capital of World Sobriety. Churikov was repressed and died in Butyrka prison in 1938, and the sect revived in the 90s (under the Soviets, a few Churikovites gathered in apartments). Churikovites are friendly towards strangers, they can privately let them see their prayer house. They have no priests, communication with God occurs through the ritual of burning notes. In addition to electric trains, you can get to Vyritsa from Gatchina by buses No. 534 and K-534 A.
On the territory of which this settlement is located, it has 17 districts and one urban district. Vyritsa belongs to the Gatchina region, and from it to the regional center of the city of Gatchina - only 32 km.
Old owners
In ancient times, up to the 18th century, the territory on which the present Vyritsa (Leningrad region) is located belonged to the Votskaya pyatina, an administrative-territorial unit used in the lands between the Volkhov and Luga rivers, of which the Oredzh is a tributary, belonged to this pyatina Novgorod land. Throughout the time of the owners, the village had many, the last pre-revolutionary owner was His Serene Highness Prince F., son of Stephanie Radziwill, who ruled over a huge amount of lands in the west of Russia.
The first written mentions of the present village of Vyritsa (Leningrad Region), and the then Swedish village of Werektca, date back to 1676 (map of Ingermandland, or Izhora land, compiled by A.I. Bergenheim).
Protected places and access to them
The places where the village of Viretsa is located are full of charm and have always attracted vacationers from St. Petersburg. In 1906, there were plans to create a "garden city" or "ideal city" here, the concept of which included the unification of maximum urban comfort with nature, which would make living in it an exemplary person. These plans arose after the commissioning of the Tsarskoye Selo railway line, which runs directly through the village of Vyritsa. The Leningrad region now in this urban settlement has several stopping points of the Oktyabrskaya railway (the oldest in Russia, the section of this road St. Petersburg - Pavlovsk is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List) - Mikhailovka, Vyritsa, platforms 1, 2, 3 and Poselok.
The largest village in the Leningrad region
This number of stopping points is not surprising, since Vyritsa is the largest (the occupied area is 30 square kilometers, in some sources - 50) village of the Leningrad Region - 12 (sometimes 20) thousand people constantly live and work in it. The railway line running through the village from south-west to north-east stretches 15 km.
Vyritsa stretches for 7 km along the Gatchina - Shapki highway. In the summer, the population of Vyritsa increases several times, since this settlement remains a favorite dacha village for Petersburgers, despite the industrial enterprises existing here. In the 70s of the last century, 4 factories were erected here - metal products and an experimental mechanical, sawmill and weaving factory "Uzor", whose tapestries are known and in demand abroad. A microdistrict of 8 storeys has been built for people working at these enterprises.
A highlight for connoisseurs
The climate of these places is remarkable: wonderful dry and soft air, clean and fast Orej River, which formed a forest valley cut by ravines. The steep river banks reveal red clay, and the ancient pines above them give the area a peculiar charm and make the village of Vyritsa more and more popular.
The Leningrad Oblast boasts many excellent recreation areas such as Komarovo, but Vyritsa is also quite in demand. There are dachas of such famous people as Academician D. Likhachev, I. Glazunov and K. Lavrov, V. Bianki and V. Pikul, M. Svetin and O. Basilashvili.
Notable residents
Vyritsa is also famous for its inhabitants, the most famous of which are the philosopher and paleontologist, science fiction writer Ivan Efremov, the author of the world famous "Andromeda Nebula". Elder Seraphim Vyritsky, glorified in the face of saints and monks, lived in this village for many years. His grave became a place of pilgrimage. Another famous resident of Vyritsa is the composer. Such an interesting person as the leader of Christian teetotalists Ivan Churikov brought fame to the village.
There is something to see and something to worship
In addition, many tourists also go to the village of Vyritsa (Leningrad Region). The sights of this place are known far beyond its borders. What makes the town attractive in this sense?
The main attractions include the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Made of wood in a tent style under the guidance of engineer M.V. Krasovsky, it is an architectural monument of the first half of the 20th century. Next to it is the chapel of St. Seraphim Vyritsky.
Another architectural monument of the beginning of the last century is the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. It was erected with donations from parishioners according to the project of the architect N.I.Kotovich. As a result of the restoration work carried out, which lasted 13 years, the church received the status of a newly identified object of cultural heritage.
Specific objects
Another unique attraction is the village of Vyritsa (Leningrad Region). The photo below shows the unusual mansion. It was erected in 1906 for the community of teetotalers, which was formed and grew into a rather large sect thanks to Ivan Churikov, who, reading the Gospel aloud, healed people from alcoholism. Pos. Vyritsa of the Leningrad Region is famous for the mansion erected in our time (2006). This is the palace of the Vasiliev brothers, which amazes the imagination both with its layout and decor, and with its architectural volumes. Locals love to watch the arrival of the owners of the palace by helicopters, made by the best Russian and Italian craftsmen.
The charm of antiquity and the possibility of access
On the western outskirts of the village, mounds of the XI-XII centuries have been preserved. The wonderful hunting castle of the Wittgenstein family has survived to this day, as well as several other old dachas built at the beginning of the last century.
There is a dam of a former hydroelectric power station in the village, which is a place for walks and a kind of attraction. The easiest way to get here is by train from the Vitebsk railway station, and from Gatchina you can go by numerous buses, which leave on average in 15 minutes.